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2022 HB 5243: An Act Concerning Adult Sexual Misconduct.

To require the Department of Public Health to administer the Connecticut School Health Survey to students in high schools; to require school personnel to complete training when a student in the school has been the victim of abuse by an adult; to require the Department of Children and Families to develop or adopt bystander training, appropriate interaction with children training, investigative training and victim sensitivity training programs; to extend the statute of limitations for failure to report as a mandated reporter from one year to three years; to authorize the Department of Education to suspend an educator's teaching license if an allegation of abuse or neglect has been substantiated; to require school districts and child care providers to conduct investigations of allegations of abuse or neglect in accordance with a checklist developed by the Department of Children and Families; to require the Department of Education and the Office of Early Childhood to develop a screening checklist for the hiring of prospective employees; and to make such training programs available to youth-serving and religious organizations.

Sponsors

  • Buckbee, Bill
  • Delnicki, Tom
  • Perillo, Jason
  • Comey, Robin E.
  • Kavros Degraw, Eleni
  • Anwar, Saud
  • Hampton, John K.
  • Ferraro, Charles J.
  • Conley, Christine
  • Ritter, Matthew
  • Cheeseman, Holly H.
  • Bolinsky, Mitch
  • Reyes, Geraldo C.
  • Parker, John-michael
  • Smith, Brian T.

Actions

2022-02-24 REF. TO JOINT COMM. ON Committee on Children
2022-02-25 PUBLIC HEARING 0301
2022-03-15 Joint Favorable Substitute
2022-03-17 FILED WITH LCO
2022-03-28 REFERRED TO Office of Legislative Research AND Office of Fiscal Analysis 04/04/22
2022-04-04 RPTD. OUT OF LCO
2022-04-04 FAV. RPT., TABLED FOR HOUSE CALENDAR
2022-04-04 HOUSE CALENDAR NUMBER 206
2022-04-04 FILE NO. 274
2022-04-13 HOUSE ADOPTED HOUSE AMEND. SCH. A
2022-04-13 HOUSE REJECTED HOUSE AMEND. SCH. B
2022-04-13 HOUSE PASSED, HOUSE AMEND. SCH. A
2022-04-18 FAV. RPT., TAB. FOR CAL., SEN.
2022-04-18 SENATE CALENDAR NUMBER 374
2022-04-18 FILE NO. 514
2022-05-04 SEN. ADOPTED HO. AMEND. SCH. A
2022-05-04 SEN. PASSED, HO. AMEND. SCH. A
2022-05-04 ON CONSENT CALENDAR /IN CONCURRENCE
2022-05-13 PUBLIC ACT 22-87
2022-05-17 TRANSMITTED TO SECRETARY OF THE STATE
2022-05-17 TRANSMITTED BY SECRETARY OF THE STATE TO GOVERNOR
2022-05-24 SIGNED BY GOVERNOR

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